Anchor pot



Dec. 29, 1970 E. BUSKE ANCHOR POT Filed March 14, 1969 INVENTOR ERWINBUSKE BY 9M W ATTORNEY United States Patent 3,550,343 ANCHOR POT ErvinBuske, Box 190, Gowrie, Iowa 50543 Filed Mar. 14, 1969, Ser. No. 812,548Int. Cl. E04!) N38; E04c 5/00 US. Cl. 52704 2 Claims ABSTRACT OF THEDISCLOSURE A hollow pot is set into a concrete floor. Means in the potare provided for receiving an upstanding post or for anchoring the endof a chain.

Sladek 2,843,060, Shankland 3,054,151, Omholt 3,298,- 653, and Hayes3,377,039.

OBJECTS In auto body repair shops, great pulling and pushing forces areapplied to various parts of an auto. While oftentimes it is possible toapply these forces by means of a tool which engages between spaced partsof an auto, other times it is desirable to obtain a good straight pullor push on the auto from some fixed element. If upstanding posts oranchors, fixed in the floor, are used, then they get in the way when itis desired to position the car for working on it, and it is necessary toavoid them when walking about or moving heavy tools from place to place.The object now is to provide an anchor which is securely mounted in thefloor, and which can be concealed when not in use.

More particularly, it is intended to provide an anchor pot adapted to beset into a floor, with means on the pot for securing it to an I or Tbeam below or far down in the floor. Within the pot are means forsupporting an upstanding beam which can be set down into the pot, or foranchoring the end of a chain, and when the pot is not in use there is alid for covering it so workmen will not step down into it, or so an autoor heavy tools can be moved over it.

These and other objects will be apparent from the followingspecification and drawing, in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective broken away view of the anchor pot installed ona T-beam, with cover plate removed;

FIGS. 2 and 3 are diagrammatic end and side views of the anchor potinstalled in a floor but with the T-beam removed.

Referring now to the drawings, in which like reference numerals denotesimilar elements, the anchor pot 2 is of hollow configuration,preferably formed of steel or the like strong metal, having verticalside walls 4, 6, 8 and 10 rigid with and projecting upwardly from abottom plate 12 which has outwardly extending peripheral flange portions13. Rigidly secured to bottom plate 12 are a pair of opposed anglepieces 14 whose inwardly directed flanges 16, 16 embrace the headelement 18 of a T-beam 20.

Extending through and between opposite side walls of the anchor pot area vertically spaced pair of cross bars 22, 24, and removably mountedover the top of the pot is a flush-fitting cover plate 26.

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Before a concrete floor 30 for a body shop is poured, a pair of T-beams20 are installed lengthwise of a stall, one on each side. Four or fiveanchor pots 2 should be slipped over the head element of each T-beam,assuming the T-beam is about 24 feet long. For lesser lengths, fewerpots would be used. Then the concrete floor 30 is poured over theT-beams and around the pots. The top of the floor should besubstantially flush with the tops of the pots. What with the mounting onthe T-beam, and the outwardly projecting peripheral flange 13 of bottomplate 12, and the outwardly-projecting ends of crossbars 22, 24, pots 2are mounted very firmly.

In operation, either the end of a chain 32 can be attached to cross bar22, or a beam 34 can be set down between cross bars 22, 24 and end wall6. Various anchoring hook-ups can be made with the chain or off thebeam. When the pot is not in use, cover plate 26 is put on so that itand the top of the pot are flush with the floor.

I claim:

1. An anchor device comprising an open-top pot shape hollow bodysubstantially rectangular in plan view adapted to be set into a floorwith the top of the body substantially flush with the top surface of thefloor, said body having generally vertical side walls,

anchor means within the body,

said anchor means comprising a pair of vertically spaced, substantiallyparallel bars extending transversely of the hollow interior of the bodyand supported at opposite end portions by opposite side walls, the endsof the bars extending outwardly beyond the side walls of the body,

whereby said anchor means may be used for engagement by a chain, or forsupporting a post engaged between said anchor means and a side of saidbody.

2. In combination with an anchor device as claimed in claim 1,

a generally horizontal beam having a generally horizontal flangethereon,

said body having a bottom wall and a pair of substantially L-shape anglestrips having stem portions depending from said bottom wall and havingflange portions oppositely directed towards one another, the bottom wallof said body engaging on the beam flange and the flange portion of saidangle strips engaging beneath opposite edge portions of the beam flange.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,072,361 9/1913 Rickman 527061,351,119 8/1920 Ogden 52707 1,616,275 2/1927 Olsen 52704 1,848,497 3/1932 Shook 52702 2,181,740 1-1/1939 Reiland 52710 2,988,855 6/1961Asfour et a1 52711 3,065,576 11/1962 Prizler et al 52706 FOREIGN PATENTS715,775 8/ 1965 Canada 52704 8,431 12/1879 Germany 52127 FRANK L.ABBOTT, Primary Examiner J. L. RIDGILL, JR., Assistant Examiner US. Cl.X.R.

